taj mahal history Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/taj-mahal-history Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:17:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Taj Mahal http://travelsfinders.com/taj-mahal.html http://travelsfinders.com/taj-mahal.html#respond Wed, 07 Sep 2016 11:40:04 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=220843 MUGHAL MAUSOLEUM AGRA, INDIA ARCHITECT UNKNOWN A vision of shimmering white marble, the Taj Mahal was built by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, as a mausoleum for his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died shortly after giving birth to her fourteenth child in 1631. Work began the following year, and the structure was finally completed in 1648, while the landscaping of the gardens and the construction of the surrounding buildings continued for several more years. At the end of his life, Shah Jahan was also entombed in the Taj Mahal alongside his wife. From the mid-16th century onward, the Mughal

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